20/02/2019
by
Joanna Gallagher

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This week the Department of Health released data from the Health survey Northern Ireland, with data from 2010/11 to 2017/18 on BMI, diet, sexual health, drinking and smoking habits, physical activity and illness.

22/11/2018
by
Joanna Gallagher

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Earlier this month a study titled ‘Individuals with obesity but no other metabolic risk factors are not at significantly elevated all‐cause mortality risk in men and women’ was published online in Clinical Obesity.

16/05/2018
by
Anne Parle

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Last week at the Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs a call was made for weight screening to take place annually in schools. The reason for this is because research shows parents of overweight children underestimate their children’s weight.